Eyeglass-guard.



l PATENTBDNOV. 20, 1906.

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LEO F. ADT, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

EYEGLASS.GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application sied March 19, 190s. serial No. 306.718.

T0 all whom, it nfl/ty concern.-

Beit known that I, LEO F. ADT, of Albany, in the county of Albany and State of N ew York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eyeglass-Guards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and

to the reference-numerals marked thereon.

My present invention has for its object to provide an improved holding-guard or gripping device for eyeglasses which has the bearing portions arranged and disposed to grasp the nose at the proper points to hold the lenses in correct position firmly, but without undue pressure, and provide for proper adjustments to suit the facial characteristics of the wearer without unduly straining the metal of which it is composed.

A further obj ect is to provide a guard having the above characteristics which is formed of a single stamping of sheet material and does not require edgewise bending of the material in its formation.

To these and other ends it consists in the improvements hereinafter described, the novel features being pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of glasses provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectional view on the line x of Fig. 1 Fig. 3, a perspective view of the guard.

Similar reference-numerals in the several figures indicate similar parts.

The guard is shown as attached to an ordinary eyeglass-mounting embodying the spring l and studs and clips 2, to which the lenses 3 are connected in any suitable manner. As the studs are shown in the drawings as provided with the vertically-opening boxes for the spring and guards, I have provided the particular guard herein with a vertically-extending attaching end 4; to fit them; but the construction of this is not essential. The guard is formed `of a single stamping of sheet metal and is provided below the attaching end with a small bearing-pad 5, preferv ably roughened and joined to said end by a relatively narrow neck 10, permitting it to be bent outward slightly, if desired. From a point above the said pad 5 an arm 6 extends forwardly, then downwardly below the pad, thence upwardly and rearwardly to a pointy preferably above the attaching end, where it is enlarged and its surface roughened, forming the upper bearing-pad 7, as shown. This long resilient arm gives the upper bearingpad, which constitutes the steadying portion of the mounting, a 4sufficient hold upon the flesh nearer the wearers eyes, while the support for the mounting is provided by the smaller bearing-pad 5, that is or may be slightly offset toward the nose independently of the lower part of the arm 6, though the latter will prevent said pads from sinking too deeply into the flesh. An additional feature of the long resilient arm 6, carrying the pad 7, is that it may not only be adjusted independently of the pad 5 either toward or from the nose, but it has sufficient length between its point of attachment and the pad to allow said pad to be adjusted toward or from the plane of the lenses without unduly straining the metal and without materia change in the horizontal plane in which it is located. These adjustments enable the guard to be adjusted to fit accurately and properly'persons having widely variant facial characteristics, and therefore the optician having my guard is not required to carry in stock many different kinds of guards, as heretofore.

I claim as my invention- 1. A nose-guard for eyeglasses embodying an attaching end, separate lower bearingpad extending downwardly therefrom and a resilient arm extending from a point above the lower pad thence downwardly beneath and rearwardly and upwardly above it, the free end of said/ arm constituting an upper bearing-pad.

2. A nose-guard for eyeglasses composed of a Isingle piece of sheet metal having'the attaching end, the rearwardly, downwardly and forwardly curved bearing-pad and the arm extending from the attaching end downwardly and rearwardly beneath the bearingpad thence upwardly and rearwardly and having the broadened and upper free end.

3. A nose-guard for eyeglasses composed of a single piece of metal embodying the attaching end, a bearing-pad arranged below it and a resilient arm extending from a point above and in front of said pad to the rear and above the latter where it is enlarged and provided with a bearing-surface.

LEo E. ADT.

Witnesses:

MICHAEL F. OCoNNoE, EDWARD MURPHY, 2d.

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